Dialogue with Trypho 124.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The LXX reading refers to the fall of Adam and Eve and of the serpent.

Greek text · Archambault 2:238

Ἐν δὲ τῇ τῶν ἑβδομήκοντα ἐξηγήσει εἴρηται· Ἰδοὺ δὴ ὡς ἄνθρωποι ἀποθνήσκετε, καὶ ὡς εἷς τῶν ἀρχόντων πίπτετε· ἵνα δηλώσῃ καὶ τὴν παρακοὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, τοῦ Ἀδὰμ λέγω καὶ τῆς Εὔας, καὶ τὴν πτῶσιν τοῦ ἑνὸς τῶν ἀρχόντων, τουτέστι τοῦ κεκλημένου ἐκείνου ὄφεως, πεσόντος πτῶσιν μεγάλην διὰ τὸ ἀποπλανῆσαι τὴν Εὔαν.

English · Claude translation

“But in the translation of the Seventy it is said: ‘Behold, you die like men, and fall like one of the princes’; to show both the disobedience of men, I mean of Adam and Eve, and the fall of one of the princes, that is, of the one called the serpent, who fell with a great fall because he led Eve astray.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 2:238 · Georges Archambault, ed., Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon, 2 vols., Textes et documents pour l'étude historique du christianisme 8, 11 (Paris: Picard, 1909) · Greek text: G. Archambault, Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon (Paris, 1909), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Archambault (1909); made independently of existing English translations.

Scripture

Ps 82:7 (81:7 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Gen 3:6 · allusion, medium confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 124.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/124/3/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 124.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/124/3/).